couple of months ago i discovered Mass Effect. and for 3 days i didnt take my meds because i literally didnt feel like wasting energy opening the bottle and walking to the kitchen to get a glass of water.

so i would wake up at 11am, and do nothing but play mass effect all day until 7am the next morning. rinse repeat

then i beat that, and did the same with Mass Effect 2.

before i even knew about this whole thing id do this with only a handful of games, usually ones with a very good story (yakuza series), groundbreaking (modern warfare 1, half-life 1&2) and RPG's (all of them)...

:confused: anyone else?

yup..

It's hard to be more addictive when you only play them for a few days straight.

I did play Mass Effect pretty hardcore when it came out, and ME2 a bit less so. Some games I get sucked right into and others not so much. I tend to fixate on whatever has my attention and do it for hours no matter what, though.

I only play one game, World of Warcraft, the MMORPG and have played for five years now. Yes, there are times where I have played too much. I love my friends on the game and the challenge of new content when it comes out. Yes I have played into the wee hours of the night, easy when some of my friends are west coast and log on late.

Yep, been there.

Also hard to be as addictive when you don't go into painful convulsions after you stop playing.

Man, I hate "video games are like drugs" comparisons.

Never did drugs but when i play video games like resident evil for in excess of 15 hours .GOd almighty my brain wont even shut off from it no matter how hard I try.I hope video games arent a form of mind control or brain washing?

Also hard to be as addictive when you don't go into painful convulsions after you stop playing.

Man, I hate "video games are like drugs" comparisons.

My cousin used to go into painful convulsions even while playing.

Frankly, video games have always been way more addictive than acetaminophen or ibuprofen for me.

I stopped upgrading my PC years ago to avoid the temptation of newer games, after one 12 hour marathon session of Civilization III that left me icing my right arm for a few days. I can't handle them, I stay away!

i have never found an addiction. EVERYTHING bores me within couple of times.

the only game that really held me was super smash brothers when it came out... so fun to play with 4 people.

i'm playing SC 2 a lot though; must be the krn blood in me.

Like drugs I can never get addicted to videogames. An hour in and I get fed up, a few hours in if I really want to get to the next level, after I get there I take a break, which turns into not playing again for a day if I get myself to turn my console on.

I use Peggle as part of my coping regiment. I play several times every day, but only for a few minutes. It clears my mind and calms me down. Peggle is stimulatingly therapeutic for me. I usually play for about 15 minutes before starting a task.

I have been playing it for many years and it's addictiveness has worm off on me. But it is highly addicting and time will get away if you get sucked in.

before i even knew about this whole thing id do this with only a handful of games, usually ones with a very good story (yakuza series), groundbreaking (modern warfare 1, half-life 1&2) and RPG's (all of them)...

:confused: anyone else?
YEAAAAH half life is awesome isnt it? didnt like 2 as much but i really lost alot of my old interest of video game addiction borderlining. used to be that way though for too long and got the mmorpg account to prove it. i mashed oblivion till it killed my ps3 and thats when my interest in video games kind of died. playing a game for X hours straight and still be able to visualize this game from having it burned into your memory trying to play out a strategy or do something different =-P i guess it was more or less daydreaming. now i play half a hour - 3 hours. if i play a game on said day that is.

I always think video games are a form of stimulation to our minds to say


"woahhh thats awesome man"


Funny with some inattentive people that they can keep focus when playing a high level competitive match like starcraft 2 .

I have been told that I do not have an addictive personanality. I told my roommate if I should go the cheap addictive route or the expensive non addictive route for my ADD treatment. He said cheap and addictive I don't see you getting addicted to anything. I hope he's right. Video games are fun. When I was younger I would play them from sunrise to sunset now as an adult I still kind of do that but in between me working out. I kind of made that my new addiction that I don't mind having. Somehow I gained 2 pounds. Hmm.

i used the "drugs" analogy to make things easier to grasp. please dont take offense folks

I become very addicted to story-driven games, most recently it was Fallout: New Vegas, the story malleability for that game is insane.

There's an older PC game I keep going back to, more an obsession than addiction, called Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, great facial animation, voice acting and writing.

Anyway, I think I use story-driven/character-driven games as a way to compensate for lack of social interaction.